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Héctor García-Molina
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| Born | November 15, 1953 |
| Died | 25 November 2019 (aged 64–65) |
| Nationality | Mexican-American |
| Alma mater | ITESM |
| Known for | Distributed databases |
| Awards | 1999 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gio Wiederhold |
| Doctoral students | Robert Abbott, Sergey Brin, Neil Daswani, Boris Kogan, Narayanan Shivakumar, Mor Naaman |
Héctor García-Molina (November 15, 1953 – November 25, 2019) was a Mexican-American computer scientist. He was a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was advisor to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, from 1993 to 1997 when Brin was a computer science student at Stanford.
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In Spanish: Héctor García Molina para niños
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